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...expresses worlds of ambiguities: anextraterrestrial's frustration at Earth mores, a doting parent's concern for his ripening daughter, a gentleman's willingness to be the sweet butt of jokes (and, in a funny shower scene, the butt of butt jokes). His mottos might be, Live and let live; Grin and bare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Grelbon Out Of Pluvarb | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

...forget the memorable goal-line stands that spurred the football team to a 14-0 win in The Game at The Stadium. Nor will anyone soon forget the image of Ted Drury skating around the Boston Garden, holding the Beanpot, with that wide-eyed-seven-year-old-Christmas-Day grin melting the Garden...

Author: By John C. Ausiello, Y. TAREK Farouki, and John B. Trainer, S | Title: A Changing Of the Guard | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

When the piano falters, Rinaldo, a stocky round-faced Italian, looks back at me with a grin. "She messed up," he tells...

Author: By Bryan D. Garsten, | Title: Khalilah Horton Goes to School | 5/12/1993 | See Source »

...provides a great deal of power to the expert. I'm writing this editorial using Word Perfect and Windows, so when I encounter a bug I have no choice but to grin and bear it. It would be impossible for me to rewrite both programs from scratch, so I have little recourse but to call the company, whine, and pray that it will be fixed in the next release...

Author: By John E. Stafford, | Title: Set Your Software Free | 4/20/1993 | See Source »

...floor is the soft-spoken 46-year-old from whom the swirl of glamour and adrenaline and influence derives. Michael Ovitz, CAA's co-founder and chairman, does not on first glimpse look like the most powerful man in show business. His scratchy voice and gap-toothed grin are real, even warm. This is the guy who sends streams of cold sweat down elegantly coiffed necks? This guy with the rosy complexion and slight stoop, who gives the impression that he has all the time in the world to hear about your weekend? Who keeps a giant bowl of Hershey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ultimate Mogul | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

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